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Pletheridge's possibilities; and softening here and there her pronounced features, succeeded presently in producing a charming and harmonious whole. By the time a dozen gowns were tried on and their available points discussed and criticised in detail, Mrs.
Pletheridge's gown the one she wanted her to buy, you know. I told her it didn't suit her. And it didn't you know it didn't," she concluded emphatically. "Of course it didn't, but I don't see why you had to go and tell her." "She asked me. They both asked me, and if I'd lied she wouldn't have believed me. You can't fool people so outrageously, and I wouldn't if I could.
Three years ago she would have flinched before Mrs. Pletheridge's disdain, but in those three years she had passed beyond the variegated tissue of appearances to the bare structure of life she had worked and wept and starved and suffered and to-day her soul was invulnerable against even more destructive weapons than the contempt of a plutocrat.
Pletheridge's favourable decision was worth exactly that much in terms of money to Dinard's. As the season had been scarcely a brisk one, Madame was particularly anxious to have her more extreme models taken off her hands. "It was unpacked only yesterday," she lied suavely, "and no one else has had so much as a glimpse of it." "I can't imagine what is the matter with it," Mrs.
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